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Mm, I don't know. For me the experience itself does feel (mildly) addictive. The urge to keep refreshing to see what's new, to click my notifications, to keep scrolling even if I'm not that engaged... I think it's fair to describe those as "hacking my brain's reward system"
IMO this can be consistent w the above; just that "hacking my brain's reward system" lacks explanatory power for anything interesting & people don't seem to notice. "I feel a daily compulsion to hug my boyfriend first thing when I get home. He's hacked my brain's reward system."
Ah ok, then maybe my disagreement is just with @primalpoly's model of what causes people's self-reported addiction to Twitter (that I thought you were endorsing), which doesn't fully match my experiencehttps://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/1092064394920349697 …
In my model, I would still feel a significant amount of the "must open Twitter, must refresh, must click notifications, must scroll" urge even if all of the content was drama-free. The dopamine hits come from some combination of novelty + approval (from the notifications)
Would you say it's possible for the brain's reward system to be hacked?
I'm saying I don't see a meaningful difference between having a reward system at all and having one that's *constantly* "hacked."
I think the "hacking my brain's reward system" idea is useful for explaining scenarios where the design of something causes you to fall into situations where you do things w/ a feeling of internal conflict (i.e., desiring to use Twitter when some part of you doesn't want to)
Feeling a desire to hug your significant other doesn't (usually) involve that internal conflict.
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Too many bad takes built on reductive ideas about why people do what they do, especially online — less, I think, because they have useful explanatory power, and more because they allow people to skip entirely the layer containing desires they don’t endorse or fully understand
